The phrase daily routine can conjure up a quiet dawn that many households have never had. A nurse finishing a night shift and a parent getting children to school may pass on the same staircase at sunrise. A discussion of dinacharya that assumes they can follow an identical timetable has already missed something important.
Dinacharya is the Ayurvedic idea of conduct through the day. For a cultural reading, notice the sequence of ordinary acts: waking, washing, eating, working and resting. Ask who supplied the water, cooked the food and had time to rest. The apparent simplicity of a routine often depends on someone else's labour.
An interesting family exercise is to draw two clocks, one for an older relative's working day and one for yours. Compare what stayed in the same order even when the hour changed. The result is a little history of work and care, without turning a traditional timetable into a rule for every reader.
Further reading: Indian perspectives on Ayurveda (NEIAH)